Q 01/05

The hyacinth macaw is the longest parrot, but which New Zealand species is the heaviest parrot of all?

A) Kea

B) Kaka

C) Kakapo

D) Kakariki

Answer · why

C) Kakapo

Kakapo outweigh every other parrot, averaging about 400 g more than the hyacinth macaw. The macaw keeps two titles: longest parrot, at about a metre, ...

Q 02/05

Hyacinth macaws often eat acuri nuts only after they have passed through the gut of which farm animal?

A) Pigs

B) Horses

C) Goats

D) Cattle

Answer · why

D) Cattle

Cattle swallow the fruit and pass the nut with its pulp stripped away, which leaves it ready to crack. Hyacinth macaws then seek out the cleaned nuts ...

Q 03/05

Captive hyacinth macaws are often fed which hard-shelled nut, native to Australia rather than South America?

A) Macadamia

B) Pistachio

C) Hazelnut

D) Chestnut

Answer · why

A) Macadamia

Macadamia nuts stand in for the wild nuts a hyacinth macaw eats at home, which zoos can rarely obtain. Few other birds have the jaw strength to open o...

Q 04/05

Which animated film's hero Blu is a Spix's macaw, a smaller and far rarer blue parrot than the hyacinth macaw?

A) Up

B) Rio

C) Bolt

D) Coco

Answer · why

B) Rio

Rio follows Blu, a tame Spix's macaw taken to Rio de Janeiro to meet the last known female of his species. A hyacinth macaw is nearly twice his length...

Q 05/05

Which colour is the bare skin that rings the eyes and edges the lower bill of the blue hyacinth macaw?

A) White

B) Pink

C) Yellow

D) Orange

Answer · why

C) Yellow

Yellow skin shows in the only two places a hyacinth macaw's head lacks feathers: a ring round each eye and a strip beside the lower bill. Most other m...